When we get the team together for this activity, we follow this with a Dreamboard activity. Otherwise you will find yourself struggling to make headway in your area of development. Its important to ensure the activities in your SMART goals are just that – Specific, Measurable, Achievable, Realistic and Time Sensitive. In doing this, you can turn an area of development you wish to focus on, into an actionable goal to get you from Point A (where you are) to point B (where you want to be). Your answers to these questions should set you up on the path to develop SMART goals, to set your direction for the year. Who can you share your commitment with?.What changes can you make in the next three months in two of those areas?.How can you make changes to improve those areas?.Which areas are lower than you thought?.Which areas are higher than you thought?.Once this is complete, join the dots between segments and review using the questions below: To complete the exercise, print out the image below and rate how satisfied you are with each area of your life (represented by each segment of the wheel) by marking a point along the wheel from 0 to 10.
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Following the Wheel of Life activity, we use our findings to create our own personal dreamboards to guide our goals throughout the year.
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In short, the Wheel of Life is a tool to assist professionals in identifying what is important to them and how well they feel they are fulfilling that particular area of their life. This is an important exercise to give you direction. What this exercise enables us to do is to identify which key areas of our life needs improving, and gives us a rating to select which ones to priotise. Each year, we begin our working year off using this exercise.